It is sad that the illegal actions of their parents have placed these kids in this predicament.
Getting control of the nation's borders will be a huge step toward preventing more sad stories like theirs.

But the real victims of our broken immigration system are the tens of millions of souls across the planet yearning to be free and willing to follow the rules who get shoved out of line by people like Dulce's parents breaking into the front of the line.
It would be a mistake to reward illegal immoral behavior.

@3:

Would that include the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen et al? You know, the ones Herr Drumpf wants either to bar entry altogether, or shuffle off to internment camps?

I applaud her incredible courage in speaking out. We've got to find a way to help protect her and millions of others from the sickening, racist hatred of Trump and his goons.

@6 Mr. Sargon, only people with a tiny, shriveled "big horn" want "respect" from an 11 year old girl.

No one is "stealing" anything. It's completely obvious to me that this young woman is an asset to our society, as are the majority of undocumented people. They mostly pay taxes into a system they will never benefit from (social security); they commit crime at levels lower than natural born citizens, and they are overwhelmingly hard working, entrepreneurial, and peaceful. Contrary to what Mr. Trump believes, the self-selected population of people willing to leave home and country and take a chance in a new land, language, and culture are not the dregs of society, but the brave and ambitious. They are also, statistically speaking, younger and healthier than Americans, so they cost our health care system LESS on a per capita basis. All of which has nothing to do with your specious argument about the millions of would-be immigrants who are waiting in line. I don't believe for one minute you have any desire to throw open the doors to those folks - it's just the only argument you can come up with for deporting law abiding families that has even a passing reference to justice or fairness.

@ 6,

Immigrants have not stolen anything from you. They work hard to make a better life for themselves and their children. The undocumented ones pay taxes in the form of payroll deductions and rents to property owners like everyone else and will not receive the future benefits.

The entire fascist obsession with immigration and citizenship is yet another racist ruse by Plantation America's masters to turn working people against each other while they steal all of the country's wealth and income. It's worked that way since the very beginning.

Morton County Sheriffs attack unarmed water protectors at Standing Rock

http://www.unicornriot.ninja/?p=11191

These folks are desperate to flee the dystopic hellhole nations they come from.
Those places are dystopic hellholes because of pervasive lawbreaking and corruption.
The kind of wide scale lawbreaking The Left advocates in ignoring our immigration laws.

I wish Ms. Sigüenza was asked what kind of immigration program is needed? Or is this confusing, depending on who's in power, grey area good enough for her?

The reality is many undocumented workers and their children aren't lucky enough to attend UW. These are the exceptions. It's hard to delve very deep when the public gets two images and views. On one side, the attractive university student who fits the kind of citizenship profile a country would want and the other, some kind of perverse criminal we need to put in jail and deport. In the meantime, we have many millions who aren't in either category. They are particularly vulnerable to exploitation.

I believe this country needs a better, more consistent and prdictable construct. I don't believe we can continue with this porous, shifting pln.

Here are some facts and what both parties have, until Donald Trump's election, proposed toward immigration reform:

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/…

The cost of mass deportation:

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/…

It will be interesting to see where Trump's campaign rhetorics diverge from his governing actions. The building industry benefits greatly from cheap, undocumented workers after all.

We're also talking about highly talented software engineers and testers in our region. We're going to loose our technological edge if workers with tenuous documentation are deported or scared away.

Her only risk of deportation will arise if she commits a crime. This risk existed under Obama's administration. But the U.S. gov doesn't have the resources to proactively deport 11 million+ people.

Since when do we take Trump for his word? He said whatever he had to to fool enough people to get elected.

The building hysteria based on "Trump is literally going to be able to do everything he said during the campaign" is getting a little hackneyed. If this is going to be 4 years of alarmism and then imploring to march and/or donate to XYZ this is just going to be living through W's administration all over again.

The immigration crises starts with the Catholic Church being so influential with all the populations south of the border, telling them not to use birth control, while they are producing far too many people to exist in their economy, and thus the northward migration. The first step to immigration should be the legal application process and not illegally sneaking into a country. But we have 12 million people or so here participating in our economy, let's grandfather them in somehow, then secure the borders using appropriate technology.

@8 Thank you for putting it so succinctly.

#1, #3,
Then I hope you'd agree that we should make it as easy to immigrate legally from Latin America as it is to do so from Europe and the British Isles.

The people who came in without documents had no alternative-the only other choice they had was to starve.

It's barbaric and pointless to round up the people already here. You and I would both have done the same thing in their place. And nobody born here was going to take the jobs they take.

The way to reduce immigration is to allow all countries to be prosperous and give their own people decent jobs at a living wage. As long as the system forces most of the planet to put the profits of the few above the good of the many, you'll have people trying to get here by any means necessary,

If only the left handwringed over the plight of the working class Americans, rural Americans, as much as they do foreign nationals living in this country illegally.